Arvind Swami has been part of the FSI community, in various regional and global roles, for the past 22 years. He has worked for strategic platform vendors like Temenos, Oracle Financial Services and SAP, where he was involved in large transformational programs globally.

Through multiple customer engagements, Arvind has seen that the financial institutions who have embraced Open Architecture and driven innovation through Open Source have been able to offer a better customer engagement and experience. In his current role Arvind leads the FSI vertical for Red Hat in APAC region, working with Financial Institutions, on helping them become more agile and respond to dynamic business needs, leveraging open source technologies.